Inventory Number: | S 340 | |
Section Number: | Θ 1053 | |
Title: | Statuette of Mother of the Gods | |
Category: | Sculpture | |
Description: | Hacked at the back and on the lower surface; head gone. Entire surface rather damaged. The woman, Kybele, is represented seated on a high-backed throne with her feet on a footstool. Her right arm rests on the arm of the throne and holds some object the greater part of which has been broken away. In her left is a large tympanon, on her lap a small lion. She is dressed in a high girt chiton and a himation, which covers her left shoulder and her body as far as the knees, leaving her right shoulder free. Her hair hangs down over her shoulders. Pentelic marble | |
Context: | Trench M (18-36/ΙΕ-ΚΑ), in a Byzantine wall. | |
Negatives: | Leica, 3-157, 80-692, 80-693, 80-694, 97-12-24 | |
Dimensions: | P.H. 0.132; W. 0.085; Th. 0.07 | |
Material: | Marble (Pentelic) | |
Date: | 19 April 1933 | |
Section: | Θ | |
Grid: | Θ:22/ΙΘ | |
Bibliography: | Hesperia 4 (1935), p. 401, fig. 27. | |
References: | Publication: Hesperia 4 (1935) Images (8) Card: S 340 |